The board's server will undergo upgrade maintenance tonight, Nov 5, 2014, beginning approximately around 10 PM ET. Prepare for some possible down time during this process.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
digster wrote:
You know, considering the way this legislation is going through, I'm starting to get the impression that the GOP's complaints about the way in which Obamacare was passed may have been slightly disingenuous.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 9:08 pm Posts: 4738 Location: 5th floor, Bay 7, position 5740
There's speculation that Mitt Romney will run for Orrin Hatch's seat in the Senate. By the way, Hatch would be running for his eighth term. He is second to Patrick Leahy for current length of Senate incumbency.
You know, considering the way this legislation is going through, I'm starting to get the impression that the GOP's complaints about the way in which Obamacare was passed may have been slightly disingenuous.
How long before we get a major piece of legislation done during normal procedures? This is the new status quo, it would seem. Maybe the Republicans were warning that Obama was breaking the previous system, which was unadvisable? Whats good for the goose is good for the gander, and all that.
The Alabama Supreme Court has reportedly stayed a lower court's order to election officials that would have required the preservation of voting records in Tuesday's Senate election.
A circuit judge on Monday ordered election officials to set voting machines to save all digital ballot images, which would preserve voting records in the event of a recount.
Alabama's Al.com reported on the original order, updating their story Tuesday morning to reflect that the Alabama Supreme Court had blocked the order.
A group of four Alabama voters filed a lawsuit last Thursday arguing that the state is required by law to preserve the images. The voters' attorney, Priscilla Duncan, said that the circuit judge's order would protect votes if there were an "election challenge."
"People think that when they mark the ballots and they go into the machine that that's what counted," Duncan told AL.com. "But it's not, the paper ballot is not what's counted. That ballot is scanned and they destroy [the ballots] after the election."
The judge's order, which argued that voters would "suffer irreparable and immediate harm if digital ballot images are not preserved," would have required the images to be saved for six months.
The Alabama Supreme Court's decision to stay the order came just hours before polls opened in the special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions' vacant Senate seat, putting Democrat Doug Jones against GOP candidate Roy Moore.
_________________ All posts by this account, even those referencing real things, are entirely fictional and are for entertainment purposes only; i.e. very low-quality entertainment. These may contain coarse language and due to their content should not be viewed by anyone
Upshot has a live-updating guess of who the likely winner will be. Right now it is at 69% Jones. The number is fluctuating, but has liked Jones all night.
Joined: Sun September 15, 2013 5:50 am Posts: 22393
after the hillary debacle, i can't rely on NYT or 538 polling
only polls i trust have naked people dancing on them
_________________ All posts by this account, even those referencing real things, are entirely fictional and are for entertainment purposes only; i.e. very low-quality entertainment. These may contain coarse language and due to their content should not be viewed by anyone
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 58 guests
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum